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Magick Without Tears.

   

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State (a):

50 copies bound with misprint of “Magic” for “Magick”.2

Bound in bright red or dark maroon cloth.4

Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘MAGIC WITHOUT TEARS’.4

Spine lettered in gilt vertically down the spine ‘MAGIC WITHOUT TEARS [ornament] ALEISTER CROWLEY’4

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Bound in dark maroon cloth.4

Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS’.4

Spine lettered in gilt vertically down the spine ‘MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS [ornament] ALEISTER CROWLEY’

State (c):

Bound in bright red cloth.4

Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS’.4

Spine lettered in gilt vertically down the spine ‘MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS [ornament] ALEISTER CROWLEY’4

 

Publisher:

Thelema Publishing Company.1

 

Printer:

 

 

Published At:

Hampton, New Jersey.1

 

Date:

January 1954 (1st printing).4  Spring 1954 (2nd printing).3

 

Edition:

1st Edition.

 

Pages:

vi + xxx + 400.6

 

Price:

Priced at $10.00.5

 

Remarks:

100 copies total were printed.  Confirmed by a letter from Karl Germer.1

50 copies were initially published in January 1954 with the misspelling of “Magic” for “Magick”.  Louis Culling had an additional 50 copies printed in the Spring of 1954 with the correct spelling.3

Contains an errata sheet.6 

Foreword by Karl Germer.

The original working title of this book was "Aleister Explains Everything."6

 

Pagination

 

 

Contents:

- Foreword

- Introduction

- Chapter I — What is Magick?

- Chapter II — The Necessity of Magick for All

- Chapter III — Hieroglyphics: Life and Language Necessarily Symbolic

- Chapter IV — The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory

- Chapter V — The Universe: The 0 = 2 Equation

- Chapter VI — The Three Schools of Magick (1)

- Chapter VII — The Three Schools of Magick (2)

- Chapter VIII — The Three Schools of Magick (3)

- Chapter IX —The Secret Chiefs

- Chapter X — The Scolex School

- Chapter XI — Woolly Pomposities of the Pious “Teacher”

- Chapter XII — The Left-Hand Path—“The Black Brothers”

- Chapter XIII — System of the O.T.O.

- Chapter XIV — Noise

- Chapter XV — Sex Morality

- Chapter XVI — On Concentration

- Chapter XVII — Astral Journey: Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience

- Chapter XVIII — The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc.

- Chapter XIX — The Act of Truth

- Chapter XX — Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle

- Chapter XXI — My Theory of Astrology

- Chapter XXII — How to Learn the Practice of Astrology

- Chapter XXIII — Improvising a Temple

- Chapter XXIV — Necromancy and Spiritism

- Chapter XXV — Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, “Kinks in Time”

- Chapter XXVI — Mental Processes—Two Only are Possible

- Chapter XXVII — Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)

- Chapter XXVIII — Need to Define “God”, “Self”, etc.

- Chapter XXIX — What is Certainty?

- Chapter XXX — Do you Believe in God?

- Chapter XXXI — Religion–Is Thelema a “New Religion”?

- Chapter XXXII — How can a Yogi ever be Worried?

- Chapter XXXIII — The Golden Mean

- ChapterR XXXIV — The Tao I

- Chapter XXXV — The Tao II

- Chapter XXXVI — Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods, Angels, etc. Live

- Chapter XXXVII — Death—Fear—“Magical Memory”

- Chapter XXXVIII — Woman—Her Magical Formula

- Chapter XXXIX — Prophecy

- Chapter XL — Coincidence

- Chapter XLI — “Are we Reincarnations of the Ancient Egyptians?”

- Chapter XLII — This “Self” Introversion

- Chapter XLIII — The Holy Guardian Angel is not the “Higher Self” but an Objective Individual

- Chapter XLIV — “Serious” Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks

- Chapter XLV — “Unserious” Conduct of a Pupil

- Chapter XLVI — Selfishness

- Chapter XLVII — Reincarnation

- ChapterR XLVIII — Morals of AL—Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur

- Chapter XLIX — Thelemic Morality

- Chapter L — A.C. and the “Masters”; Why they Chose him, etc.

- Chapter LI — How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work

- Chapter LII — Family: Public Enemy No. 1

- Chapter LIII — “Mother-Love”

- Chapter LIV — “On Meanness”

- Chapter LV — Money

- Chapter LVI — Marriage—Property—War Politics

- Chapter LVII — Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye

- Chapter LVIII — “Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving?”

- Chapter LIX — Geomancy

- Chapter LX — Knack

- Chapter LXI P— ower and Authority

- Chapter LXII — The Elastic Mind

- Chapter LXIII — Fear, a Bad Astral Vision

- Chapter LXIV — Magical Power

- Chapter LXV — Man

- Chapter LXVI — Vampires

- Chapter LXVII — Faith

- Chapter LXVIII — The God-Letters

- Chapter LXIX — Original Sin

- Chapter LXX — Morality (1)

- Chapter LXXI — Morality (2)

- Chapter LXXII — Education

- Chapter LXXIII — “Monsters”, Niggers, Jews, etc.

- Chapter LXXIV — Obstacles on the Path

- Chapter LXXV — The A∴A∴ and the Planet

- Chapter LXXVI — The Gods: How and Why they Overlap

- Chapter LXXVII — Work Worthwhile: Why?

- Chapter LXXVIII — Sore Spots

- Chapter LXXIX — Progress

- Chapter LXXX — Life a Gamble

- Chapter LXXXI — Method of Training

- Chapter LXXXII — Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality

- Chapter LXXXIII — Epistola Ultima

- Thelemic Books Referred to in this Volume

- Index

 

Author’s

Working

Versions:

1.

Manuscript.  Pages:  265.  Warburg Institute Collection.

2.

Typescript.  Pages:  580.  Warburg Institute Collection.

3.

Typescript.  Pages:  11.  Box 3, Folder 9.  Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.

 

Other

Known

Editions:

   

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.

J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, p. 211.

2.

Phyllis Seckler, In the Continuum - Volume V, No. 2, College of Thelema, Oroville, CA, p. 35.

3.

Ibid., p. 38.

4.

Personal observation of the item.

5.

Prospectus for Magick without Tears, circa 1954.

6.

Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 93, “Aleister Crowley.  Beastly Biographies and Other Used and Rare Books and Documents.”

 

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